Twilight Zone, s1 episode 7, Nov 13, 1959 - The Lonely

closing narration:
On a microscopic piece of sand that floats through space is a fragment of a man's life. Left to rust is the place he lived in and the machines he used. Without use, they will disintegrate from the wind and the sand and the years that act upon them. All of Mr. Corry's machines, including the one made in his image, kept alive by love, but now obsolete—in The Twilight Zone.​

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The Twilight Zone, s1 episode 6, November 6, 1959 - Escape Clause

closing narration:
There's a saying, "Every man is put on Earth condemned to die, time and method of execution unknown." Perhaps this is as it should be. Case in point: Walter Bedeker, lately deceased. A little man with such a yen to live. Beaten by the devil, by his own boredom, and by the scheme of things in this, the Twilight Zone.

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s1 ep 5, Oct 30, 1959 - Walking Distance

closing narration (abridged):
"Martin Sloan... perhaps across his mind there'll flit a little errant wish, that a man might not have to become old, never outgrow the parks and the merry-go-rounds of his youth, he'll smile then, because he'll know it is just an errant wish, some wisp of memory not too important really, some laughing ghosts that cross a man's mind, that are a part of the Twilight Zone."​ #classictv #classicsciencefiction

The Twilight Zone, season 1 episode 4, October 23, 1959 - The sixteen millimetre shrine

closing narration:
"To the wishes that come true, to the strange, mystic strength of the human animal, who can take a wishful dream and give it a dimension of its own. To Barbara Jean Trenton, movie queen of another era, who has changed the blank tomb of an empty projection screen into a private world. It can happen in the Twilight Zone."​

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The Twilight Zone, season 1 episode 3, October 16, 1959 - Mr. Denton on Doomsday

closing narration:
"Mr. Henry Fate, dealer in utensils and pots and pans, liniments and potions. A fanciful little man in a black frock coat who can help a man climbing out of a pit—or another man from falling into one. Because, you see, fate can work that way, in the Twilight Zone."​

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I always liked to watch reruns of Twilight Zone growing up, but I had no idea that Rod Sterling was as eloquent and reflective as he is in this interview.

Basically the US media is happy to point out injustices as long as those injustices are in a far away land and the use of comedy to mask our own in the US. This might be where the “American Exceptionalism” stems from. Nightly programs that shows everyone else’s fucked shit but our own

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The Twilight Zone, season 1 episode 2, October 9, 1959 - One for the angels

closing narration:
"Lewis J. Bookman, age sixtyish. Occupation: pitchman. Formerly a fixture of the summer, formerly a rather minor component to a hot July. But, throughout his life, a man beloved by the children, and therefore, a most important man. Couldn't happen, you say? Probably not in most places – but it did happen in the Twilight Zone."

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The Twilight Zone, Season 1 episode1 (Oct 2, 1959) - Where is everybody?

closing narration: "The barrier of loneliness: The palpable, desperate need of the human animal to be with his fellow man. Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting, in The Twilight Zone."

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